Chapter 283: The Village After the Plague
Obviously, Runye still has a long, long way to go on the road of dealing with relationships. Although the road ahead is full of thorns, this road is really difficult to walk, but the future Vermilion Hongyu and the future Jin Yuanjing have formed an impenetrable fortress between Yanran, and it will be a shortcut to meet them.
Zhu Hongyu sat in the carriage and took a nap, and suddenly woke up.
She looked at Zhu Amber, who was sitting opposite her reading a book, with a confused gaze.
"Amber, did you hear laughter?"
Laughter?
Amber looked at her sister with a confused gaze, laughter?
"Laughter, I think it's already fortunate that the latter two don't fight, how can there be laughter?"
Zhu Hongyu deeply agrees with this statement.
The carriage drove all the way, and it had already left Baoji City, and there were a hundred miles out of Baoji City, and the sky was getting dark.
I saw that there was an extra fork in the official road, and Xu Jingyi felt that there was no place to stay in front of him, so he let the convoy turn into the fork in the road.
It didn't take long to walk, and there were yellow mud houses with northwest characteristics in front of me.
Zhu Hongyu felt that the speed of the convoy had slowed down, and quickly lifted the curtain to look outside.
This village is really a little weird......
Although it was time for dinner, there was no smoke in the village.
Not to mention the smoke, at this time, it should be the season of farming, talking about the cry of children, the screaming of women, and the shouts of men.
There has to be one thing, right?
But this village doesn't even have these very lively sounds, which can be said to be very frightening.
Seeing this scene, and seeing Xu Jingyi still walking towards the village, Zhu Hongyu felt furious.
After a while, Xu Jingyi finally used the unique cleverness of Jinyiwei to find a place in the village where there were still people now.
He immediately dismounted, went to the house, and knocked on the door.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", there was still sound in the room just now, but now there is no sound at all.
Zhu Hongyu knew that the people in this house were afraid that bad people were coming outside, so she hurriedly got out of the car, came to the door, and spoke politely to the inside.
"Is there anyone in the house? We were passing through and wanted to rest for a night in Guibao Land, and we didn't know if it would be convenient. ”
The people in the house heard the voice of a woman and quickly opened the door.
Zhu Hongyu observed this house, it cannot be said to be the best house in the village, but it is much better than the yellow clay house, the house is built with gray bricks, and it seems that it is also a small rich and noble family.
Seeing that someone was coming inside, Xu Jingyi wanted to take out his Jinyiwei's seal letter and ask for convenience. Zhu Hongyu saw that Xu Jingyi was about to take out the seal letter, and quickly suppressed Xu Jingyi's hand.
She took out two taels of silver from her purse and held them in her hand.
Xu Jingyi glanced at the vermilion jade from top to bottom, revealing a disdainful gaze.
Because in his eyes, it doesn't cost money to do all this, this is the privilege of Jinyiwei, and Zhu Hongyu is just one of the thousands of grass people, obviously this is a complete asymmetry of identity.
Zhu Hongyu also felt that Xu Jingyi beside her seemed to despise her, but she didn't care about these at all.
Soon, the man and the woman of the family went out into the courtyard, still a little afraid of the guests who came from afar.
"Zhu, Doctor Zhu!"
Soon, the male host recognized Zhu Hongyu's identity, and of course he also saluted the man who was martial and old beside Zhu Hongyu.
Zhu Hongyu was very curious, how could anyone still know her in this place?
"Who are you?"
"Oops! I went to you to plant beans, and you have so many guests there, how can you remember me? But I know you. All the people in our village are dead, but luckily we have pox! Come in! ”
Zhu Hongyu looked at him with Xu Jingyi's gaze just now, which made Xu Jingyi depressed a lot. Unexpectedly, in such a place, Zhu Hongyu was still a well-known figure.
"Okay, thank you then."
Saying that, Zhu Hongyu entered the door, and the people in the car also got out of the car.
The man of this family saw so many people, although he was still respectful to Zhu Hongyu just now, it was inevitable that he would be a little hurt by the silver taels that his family would spend tonight.
Zhu Hongyu naturally saw the man's thoughts, and hurriedly stuffed the silver coin in his hand, which was already slightly hot, into the man's hand.
"You, no, no!"
The man was very embarrassed to receive the silver from Zhu Hongyu, but Zhu Hongyu generously pushed the silver into the man's hands.
"Oh, so many of us must have spent a lot of money to eat and drink at your house! You are all working hard, and it is not easy. It's a great thank you for finding us a place to stay. ”
The man thought to himself, he really met a noble person in his life.
Hurriedly invited Zhu Hongyu and his party into the house.
Zhu Hongyu and Xu Jingyi were in the front, followed by Zhu Amber, Jin Yuanjing and Runye. There were also a few other brocade guards who tied up the carriages and horses, and finally followed.
The living situation of this family is quite wealthy, and there are more than a dozen people squeezed in the living hall at once, and it does not seem very cramped.
Zhu Hongyu knew the man, so she was naturally treated as a guest and sat directly beside the man. The second seat is Runye, Jin Yuanjing, and Zhu Amber.
The hostess came out with the servants of the house and served tea to everyone.
Only then did Zhu Hongyu realize that this family was really wealthy, and so many people came not only to have a stool to sit on, but also to drink tea bowls.
It seems that it was once a crowded market.
After observing this, Zhu Hongyu accosted the male owner proficiently.
"I see that the lintel of your house is shining, I don't know what to call the outsider? How to address Madame? ”
Zhu Hongyu was polite to the male host, and she was also polite to the hostess.
"My surname is Wu, and my name is Wu Yue. My insider's name is Wu Pan's. ”
Zhu Hongyu smiled and nodded at the two, seeing that the people in their family were all in high spirits, it seemed that they had recently encountered a happy event.
"This is the person who picked me up in Ganzhou, I was trapped in Baoji before, so I can only see a doctor for the people in the city and wait for them to come. Now that they have come to pick me up, I will hurry back to Ganzhou to treat other patients. ”
Wu Yuanwai nodded, and smoothed his beard.
"That's nice...... That's nice...... When you go back to the South and you go to the doctor, you have to pay attention to your body. It is a blessing for the country and the people. ”
Zhu Hongyu picked up the teacup and faced the flattery of others, but she generally did not answer.
"By the way, just now our convoy passed through the village, turned around, and found that there was no one in the village, and you also said that everyone in the village was sick, is there such a thing?"
Wu Yuanwai nodded painfully, his cheeks twisted into a ball.
"Yes, when you planted the beans, there were already quite a few people in our village who had smallpox. The story of your bean planting in the city is spreading more and more, but when you come to our village, your evaluation has also changed. Saying that you are useless in planting beans is a fraud in the rivers and lakes. I was afraid that my children would be affected, so I discussed with my wife and took my children to your side for vaccination. It just so happened that you said that both children and adults can be vaccinated, and my wife and I thought that we couldn't let the children suffer alone, so we planted them. After that, I didn't feel anything, but where you poked the needle, there was a circle of herpes, and then it got better. ”
Zhu Hongyu smiled and nodded, and everyone present heard the reaction of the vaccinated after Zhu Hongyu planted beans for people.
"And then?" Zhu Hongyu wanted to know more about the situation in this village.
"Later......" Wu Yuanwai continued to stroke his beard, "In the villagers' homes, one family died, and we tried our best to publicize that they would go to Baoji City to plant beans, and they could send them there in their own cars, but they thought we were lying, so they went to more than a dozen people." Those dozen people are alive and well now, but most of them ...... None survived. ”
Hearing this, Zhu Hongyu gasped.
How could no one survive, no matter how much smallpox was a virulent virus, but there was still a survival rate of three or four percent, why did this village decline because of this?
"Is there a doctor in the village?" Zhu Hongyu continued to ask.
Wu Yuanwai thought about it and nodded.
"There is a temple at the west end of our village, called the Fox Fairy Temple......"
"Ahem!" "Poof!"
At the same time that Wu Yuanwai said "Fox Immortal Temple", Jin Yuanjing and Runye squirted out tea at the same time.
Zhu Hongyu looked at the two of them nervously, for fear that if they said something disrespectful, they would provoke Wu Yuanwai to drive them out who had finally found a place to stay.
"What's going on?" Wu Yuanwai looked at the two people suspiciously.
Zhu Hongyu hurriedly waved her hand and signaled that there was nothing.
"They have a bad throat and are sick these days."
Saying that, Zhu Hongyu walked to Jin Yuanjing's side, and introduced to Wu Yuanwai: "Why can you just see me, this is called Jin Yuanjing, isn't he also vaccinated with me?" He still came up with this formula. ”
Wu Yuanwai hurriedly walked over, and looked closer, and sure enough, it was Jin Yuanjing.
Only then did he hurriedly make a gesture and was very polite to Jin Yuanjing.
"Oh, my eyes are really useless, and it may not be good to go to the Fox Immortal Temple to get some medicine. Didn't even recognize you, damn it. ”
Jin Yuanjing was very polite when he saw Wu Yuanwai, and hurriedly paid all the courtesies.
"What I don't have is what I should do! By the way, we haven't eaten for the evening yet, so I wonder if we can borrow your kitchen? Cooking, the rest of the men are hungry. ”
When Wu Yuanwai heard Jin Yuanjing's words, he hurriedly said to his daughter-in-law and servants: "Hurry up and go to the kitchen to prepare a good meal, and bring out the best wine in our family by the way." ”
Hearing the master's order, several subordinates hurriedly went to clean up.
Obviously, at this time, Runye became curious about Wu Yuanwai's condition.
"Outside Wu Yuan, you sit here."
Saying that, Runye led Wu Yue to the chair and sat down, and he sat down where Zhu Hongyu was sitting just now.
Zhu Hongyu also felt that Wu Yuanwai's condition was a little strange, and she didn't believe in the ghost medicine of the Fox Immortal Temple.
followed Runye to the table and stood beside Runye, as if he had become a simple student.